Scientists across multiple disciplines are raising the alarm after the White House proposed taking greater control over how ...

If the proposal passes, it will damage one of the most rigorous, productive and valuable scientific enterprises in the world.

Rescuing Science: Restoring Trust in an Age of Doubt was the most difficult book I've ever written. I'm a cosmologist—I study the origins, structure, and evolution of the Universe. I love science. I ...

The following resources -- almost exclusively scholarly articles and books -- provide abundant methodological, statistical, and political reasons to treat psychological science specifically, but also ...

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt is reportedly taking up an idea suggested by a former Obama administration official to critique climate science using a well-established ...

New York, USA — December 11, 2025 — In a surprising development that has caught the attention of neuroscientists and wellness enthusiasts alike, a research collective known as the Cognitive ...

This book can be characterized as a "liberal" counterpart of the critique. The authors share the radicals' insistence that even at its most abstract, science is colored by context. They also share the ...

The latest in a series of high-profile retractions of research papers has people asking: What’s wrong with peer review? Scientific and medical journals use the peer-review process to decide which ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American One of the little pieties I like to spout is ...